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Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1982
This guide is designed to help trainees plan, conduct, and evaluate workshops to assist others in providing cultural orientation (CO) programs for refugees. CO is seen as a continuous learning process, involving a two-way exchange of information and skills. Awareness is developed of: (1) differences and similarities in behavior, attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Training
James, Mary Ellen – 1980
The aim of this guide is to help state education agencies (SEAs) find effective ways to improve relations between schools and their communities. Focusing particularly on the Northeast and New England, the document reviews literature on school-community relations and presents numerous examples of school-community interaction. First, the author…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Case Studies, Communication Problems, Community Resources
Torney-Purta, Judith V. – 1981
One of ten studies commissioned to investigate research needs and to stimulate planning activities, this paper addresses its recommendations to the National Institute of Education (NIE), the National Assessment, and other agencies with potential capacity to conduct or facilitate research in international education. A major part of the paper is…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Attitude Measures, Cultural Education, Educational Assessment
Indian Education Training, Inc., Albuquerque, NM. – 1978
Resistance to the development of a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) educational funding formula, as part of a larger BIA reorganization program, comes from many sources: BIA offices at all levels, contract schools and Indian tribes themselves. BIA agencies might support a reasonable funding formula but wouldn't contradict their Area Office on the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Education, American Indians, Board of Education Role
Rogers, Mary Thomas – 1978
State educational departments can take the initiative in assisting local resources to undertake the task of exploring alternative perspectives on lifelong learning. To provide leadership for those who plan, develop, and coordinate state programs or establish research priorities, state agencies need to re-examine their role in developing strategies…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
Petersen, Dorothy G., Ed. – 1980
Compiled are data on 61 accrediting bodies recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation and/or members of the Council of Specialized Accrediting Associations. Among the information given for each association: title, address, telephone number, principal officers, a brief description of its history, boards or associations represented by…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Administrator Guides
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Goldstein, Michael B. – 1977
Prepared for the National Advisory Council for Career Education, this report of a study on the current state of career education at the postsecondary level provides an overview of how American colleges and universities perceive and practice career education, together with a set of recommendations for action to encourage and facilitate the adoption…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Attitudes, Career Education, Colleges
Cavenaugh, David N.; And Others – 1977
The study identified programs serving the needs of migrant families and problems in improving services to more adequately address these needs. Exemplary programs were identified which were currently serving migrants through child care, health, education, and outreach services. The study included a literature review, a survey of 90 training…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Agricultural Laborers, Child Care
National Inst. for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1977
This document expands and updates the information presented in the First Analysis and Evaluation of Federal Juvenile Delinquency Programs. It includes: a description of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; a report on the activities and recommendations…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Role, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes
Vinson, Elizabeth A. – 1978
The study directs attention away from urban poverty to the nation's rural poor and how they are served by five public assistance programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and its Unemployed Fathers Component (AFDC-UF), Supplementary Security Income (SSI), Food Stamps (FS), and General Assistance. The 41% of the nation's poor who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Role, Community Programs, Demography
CARITHERS, POLLY – 1967
THE COUNTY SCHOOL ORGANIZATION IN CALIFORNIA HAS PERMITTED SOME PIONEERING INTERDISTRICT PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP, AND HAS DEMONSTRATED THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE APPROACH. IN SOME AREAS OF THE STATE WHERE COUNTY BOUNDARIES HAVE IMPOSED LIMITATIONS, OPERATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR PROVIDING SPECIAL SERVICES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED ON A MULTICOUNTY…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Ancillary School Services
President's National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services, Washington, DC. – 1968
This document reports a conference, attended by representatives from the 50 states, which attempted to ease the way for the transition of the administrative authority for the PACE program (Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, Projects to Advance Creativity in Education) from the direct control of the U.S. Office of Education to the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Role, Community Involvement, Conference Reports
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1968
Four conferences on manpower development and training in correctional institutions were sponsored by the Manpower Administration to bring together the basic groups of people charged with responsibility in prisoner rehabilitation and to disseminate to them the significant results of experimental, demonstration, and research projects engaged in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Role, Conference Reports, Correctional Education
Poresky, Robert H.; Dirggers, Jo Ann M. – 1978
The findings of a day care training needs assessment survey conducted in the State of Kansas by the Day Care Training Systems Project comprise the body of this report. Questionnaires were distributed to child care providers and agency personnel with child care responsibilities. Child care providers included both family and center providers, while…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Day Care
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1977
Goals, objectives, and strategies for development in the 13 states involved in the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) are detailed in this document adopted by ARC in 1977. The regional development plan incorporates earlier evaluation and program design efforts, discussion from an issues report, state comments and development plans, and public…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Change Strategies, Community Development
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